Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
> Is there any way to specify static linking to particular libraries when
> building installers with distutils or setuptools? I want to be able to
> include the shared libraries that I am linking to in my builds. I did
> not see any info on this in the docs.
Not really, no. In many cases (e.g., GNU ld), there's simply no way to tell the
linker that you prefer static libraries to shared libraries when you are
building a shared library like a Python extension. You simply have to make sure
that the static libraries are found first.
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